Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—Service of Process—Test of Applicability in Diversity Cases—\u3ci\u3eHanna v. Plumer\u3c/i\u3e, 380 U.S. 460 (1965)

The import of the Hanna v. Plumer opinion in its entirety is that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have been accorded a new priority and certainty of application in future federal court diversity of citizenship cases I. Introduction II. The Procedural Limitation on the Federal Rules: Two Distinct Tests for Two Contexts of the Issue … A. Caveat on the Outcome-Determinative Principle … B. The Validity of the Federal Rule—The Hanna Tes